Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 11

Poor Liquidity: -1
Good Reserves: +1Reasonable growth: +1

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +11

Overall GiG Score: 21

THE LEEDS LIBRARY

The maintenance, development and making available of an historic subscription library. The preservation and making available of an historic library building.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end but very substantial unrestricted reserves are available

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/12/23		£538	£653	£-115	£0	£7,120	£7,120	130.9	12	24
31/12/22		£908	£715	£193	£0	£7,227	£7,173	120.4	15	27
31/12/21	*	£480	£578	£-98	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/20		£287	£476	£-189	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/19	*	£424	£481	£-57	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/18		£565	£495	£70	£0	£7,126	£7,126	172.8	10	0
31/12/17		£407	£430	£-23	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/16		£448	£454	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/15		£415	£424	£-9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/14		£378	£376	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/13		£372	£439	£-67	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/12		£354	£402	£-48	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/11		£323	£422	£-99	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/10		£250	£353	£-103	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/09		£328	£365	£-37	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/08		£7,439	£187	£7,253	£23	£7,128	£7,127	458.2	9	0
31/12/07		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/06		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 14%
Liabilities/Income: 223%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 130.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.4

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 18 years

www.theleedslibrary.org.uk

enquiries@theleedslibrary.org.uk

0113 2453071

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Libraries

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Leeds City,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Heritage Fund	£299,300
Wolfson Foundation	£100,000
DCMS	£95,600
The Foyle Foundation	£60,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£50,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Leeds Library
£249,500	04/07/2023	The Leeds Library: The Next Chapter Project
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£60,000	28/04/2023	to support the Next Chapter capital project to make the Library accessible to everybody
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£50,000	14/04/2023	The Next Chapter Project
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Leeds Library
£100,000	07/12/2022	Redevelopment of neighbouring building to extend library
DCMS - CRF21: The Leeds Library
£27,200	08/03/2021	Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage 2020-21
DCMS - CRF20: The Leeds Library
£68,400	14/10/2020	Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage 2020-21
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Leeds Library
£49,800	14/07/2020	COVID19: The Leeds Library

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 9/11 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 36-75

ADRIAN COLTMAN Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired

ANNIE FAULDER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired

EDMUND DANON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Classical Musician

IAN WILLIAM SHAW Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired

LAURRA DAVIS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Creative Director

MOADE FAWZI SHUBITA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Senior Academic And Director Of Doctoral Programme

PHILIP ANDREW WALKER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Project Manager

PAT URRY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Civil Servant (Retired)

PAUL CHARLES ELLIS (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired

RUTH ROBBINS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Professor Of English Literature

SUSANNAH ELIZABETH RUMSBY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Printmaking Instructor

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/05/2006, number: 1114386
Registered at Companies House on 29/09/2005, number: 05577905

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

18 returns made; AR21: 3 days late, AR19: 17 days late,

Main office

THE LEEDS LIBRARY
18 COMMERCIAL STREET
LEEDS
LS1 6AL

Objectives

The Objects are: 10.1 the advancement of education, the diffusion of knowledge and the provision of suitable literature for persons particularly but not exclusively within the city of Leeds and the surrounding area by establishing and maintaining a library to promote the study and knowledge of literature and all artistic and scientific subjects and by providing library facilities and research facilities; 10.2 to preserve for the benefit of the public the listed building known as Nos 16 to 20 Commercial Street, Leeds LS1 6AL being a place of historical and architectural interest, value and beauty; 10.3 To advance the education of the general public in all aspects of arts, culture and/or heritage.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CITY OF LEEDS

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